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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

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The Nobel Prize - The One Rule

It's both sad and beautiful that a little prize, like a little award, a medal, a little plaque, they'll be most likely forgotten by history completely. It's somehow a catalyst for greatness. Would I have done it without the Nobel Prize? You know, I can't necessarily counterfactually state that that would have happened. The level of obsession that academics have about it is really, I think it is almost unbalanced becoming unhealthy.

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